University of Melbourne’s Indigenous Eye Health Group in the Centre for Health Equality: Professor Hugh TAYLOR; Emma STANFORD; Fiona LANGE

Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology, Sydney: Dr Tim FOSTER

Project Summary:

This project responds to the urgent global change challenges of health-related hygiene with regard to life expectation equality for Indigenous people, infectious disease control, and water availability in remote Australia.

It proposes using a systems-based approach for solutions-focused, community-led outcomes that seeks to enhance the health and wellbeing of Australian Indigenous people living in remote communities.

The four project partners at UQ will work in an interdisciplinary collaboration with Indigenous partners, medical experts and sustainability researchers to understand and respond to the ‘system’ of environmental, social and infrastructural changes that could prevent the spread of hygiene infections.

A case study focus on trachoma eye infection will provide the ‘entry point’ for a systems-wide investigation.

2016

The GCI’s first Flagship Project involved investigators from UQ’s School of Social Science; the School of Political Science and International Studies; and School of Economics.